Halliburton v. Martin, District Judge

GARRETT, Chief Justice.

S. P. Halliburton and others have applied to this court for a writ of mandamus to the Hon. J. D. Martin, judge of the District Court of Jefferson County for the Fifty-eighth Judicial District, showing that the complainants are the owners of an undivided interest of about 3000 acres in the Pelham Humphries league of land situated in Jefferson County, and that W. P. H. McFadden, V. Weiss, W. W. Kyle, Dan Lewis, and the J. M. Guffy Petroleum Company are in possession of the said league of land, enjoying the fruits and benefits thereof; that said land is oil bearing land,…